Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very best college players in the East by overpowering John Brownlow, Presbyterian's highly-touted number one man, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Junta's big weaknesses were his netapproaches off the backhand side, and his backhand in general was not up to the rest of his often brilliant game. Brownlow, however, could not cope with the control and power of Junta's big game...
This is to express my gratitude for a beautiful piece of writing-the review of Death of a Man. It is more than a review. It is a brilliant indictment of a hollow, barren approach to courage. I have reread it until I am convinced that it is perfect
...Spot. Out of his blended love for "the Guns," scholarship and French history came his brilliant biographies of Danton, Robespierre, Marie Antoinette and his vivid studies of warfare. During World War II, recalls Author Speaight, General Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff to General Eisenhower, asked for a copy of Belloc's Six British Battles. "That is the man I want to read," he said; "he has studied the thing on the spot...
With the promotion of LeMay, the U.S. Air Force has solved an unusual personnel problem. A brilliant commander of the vital SAC and one of the military's finest organizers, Curt LeMay had held his post for eight years, too long for any soldier in one job, so long that he was beginning to appear the indispensable man in the Air Force's top field command. He had been thought of by some top Pentagon names as too tough a bull for the Washington china shop. Now at last on the Washington scene, LeMay will succeed General Thomas...
...Sullivan plays the vile Moor, Aaron, with stunning force. Pride and pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After...